← Fame through time2000-1001 BC
The 2nd millennium BC
Whose working lives fell in the 2nd millennium BC. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 2nd millennium BC, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Davidnot measured- - 2
Hammurabi15 decades - 3
Amenhotep III15 decades - 4
Ramesses III7 decades - 5
Nefertarinot measured- - 6
Ramesses I0 decades - 7
Ahmose I0 decades - 8
Amenhotep II11 decades - 9
Tiye5 decades - 10
King Wu of Zhou2 decades - 11
Nebuchadnezzar I0 decades - 12
Šuppiluliuma I0 decades - 13
Ramesses XI0 decades - 14
Ramesses VI0 decades - 15
Ramesses V0 decades - 16
Tiglath-Pileser I0 decades - 17
Aynot measured- - 18
King Wen of Zhou0 decades - 19
Ramesses VIII0 decades - 20
Muwatalli II0 decades - 21
Tukulti-Ninurta I0 decades - 22
Ramesses IX0 decades - 23
Jie of Xia0 decades - 24
Ramesses VII0 decades - 25
Neferneferuatennot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.